In order to have a sunny life on a moment-to-moment basis, you must be willing to let something new happen to you. No one sincerely asks for a new life until they are thoroughly dissatisfied with the old one. Letting go of the old ideas is the only way to really invite something new. Let's look at one example of how our new self-knowledge can turn a painful and repetitive unhappiness into a...
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Classroom Talk: 9/25/2019 Just as... it's the nature of water to "want" whatever path it's provided, so does True Self flow into and through whatever may seem to momentarily obstruct its will -- and its work -- to return to its Celestial Source.
With one hand He gives, with the other He takes Filling and emptying the soul, Carving out receptivity to His Name With each deft blow of His soul-sculpturing hands. I am never full, nor ever bereft. Neither am I, But all is He. I am His form. No other form have I And it is to the shelter of His Name He guides me Regardless of how He shapes me. God wants me to want only Him;...
The end of the first stage of our search for the Divine begins with this unthinkable discovery: there can be no real "end" to our search because, in reality, there is no end to the Divine that dwells within us. This realization sets the stage for a holy new order of search... that now includes the conscious work of seeing through -- and letting go of -- the false idea that we have ever been...
The wise person's prayer and action: that never a single hour, let alone a full day go by wherein not only do you remember your God, but that same moment of recollections do you collect yourself and offer all that you are to Him.
No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing to let go and outgrow an unconscious level of self that keeps bringing us back -- time and time again -- to that same painful place in passing time.
You cannot insulate yourself from life without isolating yourself in the fearful world of those uncertain thoughts and feelings that would convince you it is far better to protect yourself from the unknown that to let go and find freedom within it.
Real life never stops starting over; but, before we can enter into its ceaseless flow and realize its perfect freedom, we must agree to let go of our identification with any past attachments that create a present sense of self.